What is the right way to honor the Lord present in the bread and wine?
From the YOUCAT, no. 218:
Because God is truly present in the sonsecrated species of bread and wine, we must preserve the sacred gifts with the greatest reverence and worship our Lord and Redeemer in the Most Blessed Sacrament.
If there are consecrated hosts left over after the celebration of Holy Eucharist, they are kept in sacred vessels in the tabernacle. Since the Most Blessed Sacrament is present in them, the tabernacle is one of the most venerable places in the church. We genuflect before any tabernacle. Certainly, anyone who is really following Christ will recognize hi in the poorest of the poor and serve him in them. But he will also also find time to spend in adoration before the tabernacle and offer his love to our Eucharistic Lord.
Photography and Eucharist
From an article by Father Tommy Lane:
In a book entitled Healing Through the Mass (pages 84-85, published by Resurrection Press and authored by Fr Robert DeGrandis S.S.J.), I read the following: NASA did some experimenting with a special type of camera that could see the energy levels in the human body. This is then seen on a monitor. This energy shows up as an aura around the body. NASA’s interest in the experiment was to investigate the effects of space travel on astronauts in orbit.
Experimenting in a hospital they discovered that when a person is dying, the aura around the body is thinner and gets thinner and thinner until the person dies. The scientist carrying out this investigation in the hospital and his associate were behind a two-way mirror. They could see with their camera another man coming into the room with light coming from his pocket. Then the man took the object from his pocket and did something so that in the camera the whole room was filled with light and with their camera they could no longer see what was happening. They ran to the room to see what was causing so much light to appear in their camera. They discovered that the dying man was being given Holy Communion. Afterwards with their camera they could see that the aura around him was brighter. Although in his fifties, the scientist conducting the experiment decided to become a priest after witnessing that.
"If angels could be jealous of men, they would be so for one reason: Holy Communion."
— St. Maximilian Kolbe
(via doubleplusgoodful)
"When you look at the Crucifix, you understand how much Jesus loved you then. When you look at the Sacred Host you understand how much Jesus loves you now."
— Blessed Teresa of Calcutta
Q: Last Thursday at Mass the priest talked about the Word, the community, and the Eucharist being equal: He challenged us about why we bow and kneel before the consecrated cup and bread but not to each other or the Word. Am I confusing equal and the same?A: A current fallacy floating around in some Catholic circles equates the Eucharist with the Word of God and the congregation. The Eucharist is the body and blood, soul and divinity of Jesus Christ who is God and the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity. Only the Father and the Holy Spirit are equal to him. To say otherwise is not only the result of fuzzy thinking, it’s heresy!
(Source: badwolfcomplex)
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Every act of reverence, every genuflection that you make before the Blessed Sacrament is important because it is an act of faith in Christ, and act of love for Christ. And every sign of the cross and gesture of respect made each time you pass a church is also an act of faith.
—Pope John Paul II
